Medical School
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Association was held as usual at Commencement together with the graduation exercises, and eighty-seven was a fair attendance considering the divided reunion. Eighteen new members were gained and officers were elected: Harry C. Storrs M'lo, president; Curtis C. Tripp M'19, vice president; and Rolf C. Syvertsen M'22, secretary-treasurer. The informal assembly and tea on the following week-end, eventually coming into conflict with other activities through changes in scheduled times, was poorly attended probably because of the fact that the four classes did not succeed in getting their medical men back to town. The old- est class represented at the banquet was 1895 with H. Sheridan Baketel, and on the following week-end 1896 sent David N.
Blakeley. The farthest point in distance was Seattle with Gardner Ridlon M' 33 back for his first reunion.
At the April meeting, the trustees appointed Reginald K. House, Vermont M' 37, one-time Teaching Fellow, an In- structor in Pathology; Arthur S. Cain, Kansas M'4o, a Teaching Fellow, and Laura Jacques, Boston University M'3o, a Research Fellow, both in Pathology. Rihcard H. Barrett, Bowdoin A.B., 1932, Vermont M'37, Mayo Foundation Fellow and Minnesota M.Sc. in Anaesthesiology, was appointed an Instructor in Pharmacology (Anaesthesiology). At the June meeting Howard N. Kingsford M'9B became Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, Emeritus; Ralph E. Miller M'26 became Professor of Pathology, and Frank H. Connell '28 became Professor of Parasitology. Kenneth Lawrence Roper, Creighton, b.S., 1920; M.D., 1932; Pennsylvania M.Sc., 1941, was appointed an Instructor in Ophthalmology in the Eye Institute.
The following marriages record the terrific gains made by the ranks of the benedicts in the past three months: William J. Watson M'29 to Jane Marie Coburn on June 17 at Convent, New Jersey; Jesse McCanless Gait M'37 to Anne Alberta Oulton on July 5 at Hanover where Dr. Gait has become an assistant on the staff of the Hitchcock Clinic; Dexter Roland Branch M'3B to Janet Roberta Woodman on June 21 at Medford, Massachusetts; Philip P. Thompson Jr. M'39 to Mary Winnek Rines on June 14 at Portland, Maine; Ludwig J. Pyrtek M'4o to Mary Elizabeth Folette on June 14 at Chicago; and John Randall Durrance M'42 to Stella Head Coulter on February 5 at New York City.
The McGill delegation can be depended upon for news. This time Austin R. Grant M' 39, who went to Sea Island, Georgia, to rest on his laurels, distinguished himself by taking third honors in medicine, at graduation; and Ernest Foss Jr. M' 39 by getting himself married at Ithaca to Jane Hosmer, Smith '39, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Ralph S. Hosmer of Cornell University, on September 14. Dwight Parkinson M' 39 has begun his internship here, starting in pathology; and Franklin Martin Jr. M' 39 is putting in time at Orange Memorial while waiting for his Navy uniform.
That reminds me that at Orange, Massachusetts, Albert C. Leach M' 94 is very much in need o£ a young recent graduate to help him, which is simply a grand opportunity for someone interested in general practice.
William P. Clough Jr. M'35 has finished at Boston Lying-in and is back at New London with his father. They have opened a new office together. Joseph M. Clough M' 34 ophthalmologist who had expected to join them on a part-time basis, with an office in Manchester also, is at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont.
Walter B. Crandell M'35, who has been at Massachusetts General, came here for Hanover Holiday with his family for a vacation before proceeding to Bellevue on an appointment in the Thoracic Service.
Frank P. Foster M'30 carved another notch with an article in the June number of the Surgical Clinics of North America.
Oliver P. Hayward M' 32 is a proud parent, with Susan entered in class competition.
Harold B. Orenstein M' 36 sailed from San Francisco in August for duty in tropical medicine with the Asiatic Squadron.
J. Ellsworth Cavanagh M' 36 who was an obstetrician at Sloane is at the Army Air Base at Tallahassee, Florida. His family has joined him.
Recent graduates will be interested to know that Dr. Arthur Edson MacNeill, an assistant in the Hitchcock Clinic, was married on June 25 to Lydia M. Rhoades of our operating room supervisory staff. Dr. MacNeill is in the Aviation Section, M.C.R., U.S.A. at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho.
Howard M. Payne M' 29, who was promoted to Assistant Professor of Medicine at Howard University last July has been spending the past year organizing a new 150 bed Tuberculosis Service in the teaching hospital at Washington, D. C.
Hermann Sander M' 36, who has just finished at Mountainside at Monclair has a commission pending in the Army Medical Corps Reserve.
Regimental Surgeon Clifford W. Mills M' 36, stationed somewhere in the wilderness of South Carolina, says that traumatic injuries are plentiful and it's a great life, but still finds it difficult to understand how he, a resident in obstetrics at French Hospital, got out there in the bush.
J. Allison Montague M' 37 began a residency in psychiatry in Bellevue on July 1. The Columbia delegation of George E. Zeluff M' 39 and wife, Charles S. Oliver M' 39 and T. Richard Watson M' 39, and Miss Eleanor Blanchard came to town to help send out the annual alumni letter at the end of May.
Captain Deering G. Smith M'iB has been ordered to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for duty with the Medical Reserve Corps.
Lieut. J. Wallace Davis M'40 reported in town as a member of the Medical Administrative Corps instead of the artillery which he says is more appropriate for a student of medicine.
The New England Surgical Society met here on September 5 and 6 under the committeeship of Doctors Bowler, Gile, and Tyson. Our clinical faculty was represented by Doctors Miller, Tanzer, G. A. Lord, Murtagh, Barrett, Tyson, Milliken, and Sycamore, who presented the Friday morning program. Howard M. Clute M'14 presented "Bile Duct Reconstruction with Vitallium Tube" on the program of the second day. John F. Gile M'lB was reelected Secretary and Radford C. Tanzer '25 was elected to membership at the annual busines meeting.
